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    The Scent of Water on Mirrors
    The Scent of Water on Mirrors
    The Scent of Water on Mirrors
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    The Scent of Water on Mirrors

    By Vera S. Scott

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    A collection of poetry from award-winning poet Vera S. Scott centering on family, friends, people she has known and the type of relationships that resonant in everyone's life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVera S. Scott
    Release dateFeb 27, 2013
    ISBN9781301360888
    The Scent of Water on Mirrors

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      The Scent of Water on Mirrors - Vera S. Scott

      Table of Contents

      Exchange While Putting Up Butter Beans

      Mercy

      Pit Bulls Barked at the Fence All Afternoon

      Transient

      How to Slice a Tomato

      The Haunting

      Hauling Stones from Outer Mongolia

      Harkness

      Birds Without Sea

      Beloved

      Atonement

      Lydian

      God as a Simple Answer

      Invitation

      Grace Like Glass Hearts Falling

      Echoes from the Moon

      Living with Witches

      Eighteen Minutes to Die

      Pale Cranes

      Kona Blend

      Clock

      Fallen Eagle

      Forest Lawn

      Family Reunion

      Taking a Lover

      Ann Arbor Art Fair

      Transconfiguration for the Merely Mortal

      Time Traveler

      Stupid Green Frog

      Phytoestrogen

      Prayer to an Invisible Friend

      Braid

      Sleeping to Staten Island

      Barnegat Light

      Tsunami

      Exchange while Putting Up Butter Beans

      Four days waiting, caressing

      blue hands

      smaller than a quarter's round.

      Two days weeping, his sleep

      more silent

      than the cradle's undulation.

      I named him

      with the strength of my father.

      I can't stop.

      It is decades later

      and even now I listen

      for his whimper carrying

      over the field

      and through

      these summer curtains.

      ~for Bentley J. Valentine 8/9/1872 - 8/12/1872

      Mercy

      Damnable Beast

      purveyor of old hearts seeking

      some final importance:

      I was there,

      said a

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